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King of Solomon posted:I feel like the servers being down probably makes doing the World Tendency events a lot harder, too. It's actually much easier because you don't have the server tendency pulling you in the wrong direction.
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King of Solomon posted:I feel like the servers being down probably makes doing the World Tendency events a lot harder, too.
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Apr 22, 2020 04:52
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Volte posted:From what I remember, going online actually made them impossible because going online would force the world tendency to the average online world tendency. I'm pretty sure you could make it impossible to get the pure white tendency stuff on a particular playthrough if you logged into the servers while your own world was in a pure white state but before you did the events, since it'd get reset back to grey-ish with no way to raise it anymore. Yeah, that second part is the concern. Obviously it's trivial to get to pure black, just dupe the revival item and get to jumping off cliffs, but getting to pure white if you gently caress up and don't get there incidentally is impossible with the servers down.
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Apr 22, 2020 05:23
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Arrhythmia posted:Demon's is pretty easy to emulate now. Highly recommend. yes. really. its so good. how does emulation handle world tendency? is that something you could set during play?
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Apr 22, 2020 08:20
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King of Solomon posted:Yeah, that second part is the concern. Obviously it's trivial to get to pure black, just dupe the revival item and get to jumping off cliffs, but getting to pure white if you gently caress up and don't get there incidentally is impossible with the servers down. If you have some knowledge of how the world tendency works, doing that offline is easier since all you have to do for pure white is don't loving die in body form in a world and beat the zone bosses. Boletaria Castle even has some extra wiggle room because it treats the dragons as extra bosses for pushing the world tendency up. People playing DeS blind would probably never pick up on the world tendency mechanic anyway, or necessarily find the spots you have to backtrack to that pure white world tendency unlocks. Now, character tendency is a pain to push up or down with the servers offline. To get a pure white character tendency, all you can do is kill the named NPC black phantoms that show up in pure black world tendency zones. Pushing it down to pure black after is a bit easier, since there's more normal NPCs to murder to do it with, but still annoying.
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Apr 22, 2020 10:52
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Sleekly posted:yes. really. its so good. It's just like playing offline. WT starts at neutral in every world and gets recorded between sessions. I suppose that it's conceivable you could set it outside of playing the game but that is beyond me.
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Apr 22, 2020 13:56
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There is a user made server for Demons Souls that has been running for several months now  I've done many multiplayer sessions, it's really stablehttps://thearchstones.com/ You still need to be using a PS3 to connect to it but it's really easy. Plus, it has some additional features like being able to set your world tendency to whatever you want
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Apr 22, 2020 14:36
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Someone in DS2 just invaded my world, killed everything, escorted me to the boss arena and then dropped 100 effigies, and left with a wave. Oh these games 
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Been dipping my toes into DS3 mods. Started with the item randomizer, which has been kinda fun apart from getting to irithil and having only found maybe 10 total large titanites, but hasn't been a problem as I'm swimming in twinkling titanites so that's cool. It works so that it won't soft lock ya but man you have to check every item and chest. Plus the enemies drops are random so who fuckin knows which monster I have to harvest for large titanites Anybody else do mods? Have any recommendations? Not really looking to slog through super difficult stuff
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Apr 24, 2020 18:15
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King of Solomon posted:I feel like the servers being down probably makes doing the World Tendency events a lot harder, too. There’s a private server you can access by changing your PS3s DNS settings that lets you play online and it has the ability to change your world tendency by leaving specific messages to tell the server to do it. It’s not very populated (usually around 10 people on in the US at any given time) but it’s still pretty cool. Edit: For some reason the app told me the post I replied to was the last one. Big Bizness posted:There is a user made server for Demons Souls that has been running for several months now
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Apr 25, 2020 06:01
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Beat the game and all the DLC this time. Great game. The bosses were fantastic. Slave Knight Gael and Sister Friede are the best boss battles in the series. Midir is nowhere near as hard as people make him out to be.
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Apr 25, 2020 08:05
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punk rebel ecks posted:Beat the game and all the DLC this time. I agree about Midir, he’s definitely okay once you’ve died to each attack around 45 times and can dance around his only then predictable moveset. It is a questions generally about DS bosses tho - some are utterly brutal until you ‘figure them out’ and then there’s almost no challenge left anymore - just follow the strat. I would say I’d like some more rng in some boss fights but I’m not mad
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Apr 25, 2020 09:54
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Aidan_702 posted:I agree about Midir, he’s definitely okay once you’ve died to each attack around 45 times and can dance around his only then predictable moveset. Midir only took me three sessions to beat. Probably died to him 20 or 30 times. Once I figured out his pattern I was set. I only died once to his second form, and the next time I killed him.
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Apr 25, 2020 10:13
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punk rebel ecks posted:Midir only took me three sessions to beat. Probably died to him 20 or 30 times. Once I figured out his pattern I was set. I only died once to his second form, and the next time I killed him. Also, I think "hard enough to take three sessions and 30ish attempts" is exactly what people mean when they say the boss is hard...
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Apr 25, 2020 11:49
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i dont think theres a boss thats harder than midir in ds3 considering hes so annoying that even co-opping him wont make him easier. at least i cant think of any boss thats harder.
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Apr 25, 2020 12:45
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I accidentally ran across the secret to beating Midir in co-op. I was co-opping with a couple buddies last year and we had tried several times to beat Midir with little luck. Eventually we decided to do a yolo pickaxe run and just destroyed him. Pickaxe is op.
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Apr 25, 2020 15:22
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Simply Simon posted:Also, I think "hard enough to take three sessions and 30ish attempts" is exactly what people mean when they say the boss is hard... That's pretty much the average challenging Dark Souls boss. I'd say that I had more trouble with Aldrich and Pontiff Sulliyvan than Midir.
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Apr 25, 2020 18:10
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“I don’t know why everyone said that boss was hard, I only had to retry him 30 times” lmao
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Apr 25, 2020 18:12
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1redflag posted:“I don’t know why everyone said that boss was hard, I only had to retry him 30 times” lmao 30 was a bit of an exaggeration. I fought him as much as pretty much any other Dark Souls boss on the more challenging end. Friede and Nameless King were much more difficult. I'd even say some mid-game bosses were.
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it took me like 4-6 tries to beat pontiff and nameless king and like 10 to beat friede so I can't say I relate
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[in a very me, every third post in a Souls thread voice] everyone has difficulty with different bosses and their own definition of what "difficult" even means
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my complaint with midir was never that he's "too hard" anyways, it's that he has a shitload of hp and defenses, is available to attack less than many other bosses, and spends a lot of time flying or charging over to other ends of the arena so you have to run after him, and as a result the fight takes fuckin ages
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Apr 25, 2020 19:34
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IronicDongz posted:my complaint with midir was never that he's "too hard" anyways, it's that he has a shitload of hp and defenses, is available to attack less than many other bosses, and spends a lot of time flying or charging over to other ends of the arena so you have to run after him, and as a result the fight takes fuckin ages Yeah I agree. I think it’s the hardest in this sense at least, that you have the greatest amount of time to screw it up.
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On my blind run of DS3, did Nameless King, Midir, and Pontiff solo in 3-4 tries each. Soul of Cinder I did solo in 2, I think. I did summon Gael for the Freide fight and a human for the Gael fight, but that was after a go or two at each where I got them down to 1/3rd HP on their final forms and I probably would've beat them both in a few more goes solo but I was getting antsy about finishing the game. The boss I think I died to most to solo was maybe Aldrich, either that or Champion Grundyr or Dancer. Those were maybe around 7-10ish tries? I'd count any boss where an experienced Souls player takes 10+ tries to be challenging, but some people have memories of their first runs at bosses taking days or weeks or driving them to stop playing for a couple months, and any boss less than that is going to feel like cake. Midir being goddamn massive, moving huge distances across the arena, and having a ton of HP did make his fight more annoying than fun though. Nuns with Guns fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Apr 25, 2020 |
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IronicDongz posted:my complaint with midir was never that he's "too hard" anyways, it's that he has a shitload of hp and defenses, is available to attack less than many other bosses, and spends a lot of time flying or charging over to other ends of the arena so you have to run after him, and as a result the fight takes fuckin ages
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When people here say a 'hard' boss took 5-7, maybe 10 tries just sounds so alien to me. I was on soul of cinder for a week before I went and then spent another week on other bosses before finally going back. Lawrence the first vicar in Bloodborne...I genuinely could not count the attempts. I will say DS3 was my first souls game and BB afterwards - I didn't realise you needed to be embered to summon till I was NG+1 so my lack of attention could be at fault.
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I spent at least 500 hours in ds1 and 200 in ds2 before ds3(and also a history of action games beforehand) so it's not really a fair comparison if you're coming in without prior experienceAidan_702 posted:I didn't realise you needed to be embered to summon till I was NG+1 so my lack of attention could be at fault.
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Aidan_702 posted:When people here say a 'hard' boss took 5-7, maybe 10 tries just sounds so alien to me. Yeah, that's why I said "experienced" but to be clear on that I mean someone who has played 2 or 3 of the games to the end or poured a few hundred hours into one of them. Enough playing to understand common tricks the designers like to insert in levels and who are able to spot common boss behaviors and adapt quickly to their attack patterns based on prior fights. Between DeS and DS1-3 especially there's a lot of similarities in levels and bosses and how you fight them after a while.
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Just beat the Curse-rotted Greatwood, and got my first Ultra Greatsword (the Zweihander). Is the Zweihander one of the faster UGs, or is there a better one down the line? I'm using a +3 Claymore right now and I'd like to use my Titanite Shards wisely. I guess I could also farm a Flamberge from one of the enemies, seeing it has slightly more base damage than the Claymore, but I don't know if it's worth it.
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The game will be making GBS threads titanite in a moment, don't worry about conserving it.
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Schneider Heim posted:Just beat the Curse-rotted Greatwood, and got my first Ultra Greatsword (the Zweihander). Is the Zweihander one of the faster UGs, or is there a better one down the line? I'm using a +3 Claymore right now and I'd like to use my Titanite Shards wisely.
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So I've been in a Bloodborne sort of mood lately and while I go about that, I've been wondering if there's been anyone new, or at least interesting, on the soulsborne lore youtube front lately? I went to check out the usual standbys like Vaatividya but he mostly seemed to have just moved right on past bloodborne entirely.
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Schneider Heim posted:Just beat the Curse-rotted Greatwood, and got my first Ultra Greatsword (the Zweihander). Is the Zweihander one of the faster UGs, or is there a better one down the line? I'm using a +3 Claymore right now and I'd like to use my Titanite Shards wisely. If your concern about UGS is how fast they are, then just stick with the Claymore or other Greatswords. Other than that though, the Zwei is a good classic UGS that can serve you well, and is comparatively low weight for an UGS. I love the Flamberge, but it is a very annoying drop to try and get early-game( you might be trying for hours), and it starts to lose its base damage advantage against the Claymore with infusions after about the mid-game. Claymore indisputably has a better R2 move with a thrust too, although the weapon art to R2 on the Flamberge is broken and does more damage than it should. Just use the titanite on what you like best. You'll keep getting a lot more and only the very last upgrade material is technically a limited resource.
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Virtually all of the weapons in Dark Souls 3 are crap outside of a select few which are mostly in the end game anyways. So just pick whatever lovely weapon you want.
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the only crap weapons are like... the two candlesticks, torch, a couple of the daggers and branding iron. almost all the weapons in this game are totally reasonable to play through the game with. (I assume you are making a joke about balance but I don't wanna give the wrong impression) LazyMaybe fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Apr 28, 2020 |
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IronicDongz posted:the only crap weapons are like... the two candlesticks, torch, a couple of the daggers and branding iron. almost all the weapons in this game are totally reasonable to play through the game with. I just feel that compare to Dark Souls 1 and especially Dark Souls 2, the build/weapon variety in Dark Souls 3 is lacking.
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punk rebel ecks posted:I just feel that compare to Dark Souls 1 and especially Dark Souls 2, the build/weapon variety in Dark Souls 3 is lacking. There's a lot less unique one-off weapons that do singular interesting, if not entirely viable things in 3. Whereas in one and two there were a bunch of weapons that were unique in their purposes or action and you could build an entire gimmick build around. But even when there are weapons in 3 with effects, they've really cut down on the diversity of them; just look at how many weapon arts just come down to "enchants weapon with fire damage" under a different name.
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There are plenty of good/interesting weapons in 3 but a lot of them are backloaded, some to a ridiculous extent. The game’s relatively inflexible about progression compared to 1 and 2 and that really hurts it in this department.
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yeah the funnest katana in the game is like from the hardest boss in the last dlc. in fact a lot of the fun weapons are in the last dlc.
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